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The first thing I have to say about this is keep your worpress up to date at all times! Skipping a release will not only make you vulnerable to hackers, but also make it more difficult to upgrade later. But this, of course is something you already know, lets see what we could do to make it easier to manage this.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a distribution system for wordpress?
Actually, you have! You can use Subversion to install wordpress, and upgrading later is as easy as just switching repositories, if you follow static versions, or svn update if you install from trunk.

This makes upgrades a 4 step procedure (you can cut it down to 2 if you like to live risky, or if you don’t use custom plugins):

• Disable all plugins
• run svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/
• go to your wp-admin, and update database (one click operation)
• Enable your plugins again

As mentioned, you may skip the first and the last point.

See wordpress.org for more info, on how to switch from a tarball installed wordpress to a svn-installed wordpress, or performing a fresh install from svn.

Denne howtoen er noe utdatert

her er en nyere…

Selvfølgelig, hvis du bruker Ubuntu Gutsy, alt du trenger å gjøre er å klikke her

Java er en av de innstikkene til Firefox som ikke kan istalleres med innstikk-behandleren i Firefox. Java-innstikket må installeres manuellt (eller gjennom systemets pakkesystem). Jeg vil her ta for meg hvordan en installerer dette på en RedHat-basert og en Debian-basert distribusjon. Framgangsmåten for Debian-baserte distribusjoner vil sannsynligvis fungere i alle typer distribusjoner, men jeg skriver Debian her fordi jeg bruker Ubuntu selv.

Edit(2006-06-25): I Ubuntu 6.06 kan Java installeres langt enklere, apt-get install sun-java5-plugin
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One of the things people moving from windows to linux find strange is that you have to mount cd’s and floppies to read them. You have to say to the system that you want it to handle floppies before you open it, and to stop handling it before you eject the floppy. Here is a howto.

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One of the questions about linux I get most frequently is How do I get norwegian keys (æøå) to work in terminals and console in Debian?

Until very recently I couldn’t answer them. I dont use Debian on my desktop (I use Debian on servers), so I have never had that problem. So, today I sat down at a sparc machine at etjenesten, wich had Debian installed, and did not have norwegian keyset or locale. I decided to find out how to fix it, and fix it.

Here’s a howto

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